All progress and growth is a matter of change, but change must be growth within our social and government concepts if it should not destroy them.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.

All men are equal before fish.

To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope.

Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.

When the silence and the aloneness press down and around me, crushing me, carving through me like ice, I need to speak aloud sometimes, if only for proof of life.

If you are the person who gets the lion's share of attention in good times, guess what: you get the lion's share of attention in bad times.

Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you.

Friends are seldom found; they are made.

The flaw in the pluralist heaven is that the heavenly chorus sings with a strong upper-class accent.

Life is a fight from the minute you take your first breath to the moment you exhale your last.

I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct.

What you put out is what you get back, and the reason so many are so short of money is that they put little or nothing out

I don't draw attention to myself or have security pushing people away.

Ruby Stevens was determined, ambitious and tough. She had to fend for herself in so many ways as a child and always felt apart, on her own.